Transporting system, transporting carriage and method for transporting metal coils
AssigneeSiemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH
InventorsRoland Gatterbauer, Roland Hofer
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Abstract
A transporting system for transporting metal coils, for example hot coils, may include a multi-track rail system; a number of driverless transporting carriages, which can be moved on the rail system by means of a drive device and are equipped with an on-board communication device; a locating device, with which up-to-the-moment locational information can be determined for each transporting carriage located on the rail system; and a central control device, to which the locational information of each transporting carriage can be fed, wherein a communication link, which at least in certain sections is formed without any lines, can be established between the control device and the communication device.
Claims24
A transporting system for transporting metal coils comprising:
- a multi-track rail system;
- several driverless transporting carriages configured for movement on the rail system by means of a drive device, each of the several driverless transporting carriages being equipped with at least one on-board communication device;
- a locating device on each of the several driverless transporting carriages configured for continuously determining current location information for a respective one of the several driverless transporting carriages located on the multi-track rail system;
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- a central control device configured to receive continuously determined location information of each of the several driverless transporting carriages via the at least one on-board communication device on each of the several driverless transporting carriages, wherein a communication connection, including at least one wireless section, is established between the control device and each on-board communication device.
A method for transporting metal coils on a multi-track rail system by several driverless transporting carriages, each of the several driverless transporting carriages being driven by a drive device, the method comprising:
- continuously determining current location information of each of the several driverless transporting carriages using a locating device;
- transmitting the continuously determined current location information to a central control device;
- generating control information to control the drive device using the central control device, the control information being generated based on the location information of at least one of the several driverless transporting carriages located on the multi-track rail system;
- establishing a communication connection between the central control device and at least one communication device arranged on board of each of the several driverless transporting carriages;
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- transmitting the control information from the central control device to the at least one communication device arranged on board of each of the several driverless transporting carriages via the communication connection, which includes at least one radio connection.
Several driverless transporting carriages for transporting metal coils, each of the several driverless transporting carriages being driven by a drive device on a multi-track rail system, each of the several driverless transporting carriages comprising:
- an on-board device comprising a locating device, configured to continuously determine current location information of the respective one of the several driverless transporting carriages, and at least one on-board communication device,
- wherein each on-board communication device is configured for data transfer via a communication connection including at least one wireless section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.